xpath
a script to query XPath statements in XML documents.
Synopsis
xpath
[-s suffix] [-p prefix] [-q] -e
query [-e query] ... [file] ...
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description
xpath
uses the XML::XPath perl module to make XPath queries to any
XML document. The XML::XPath module aims to
comply exactly to the XPath specification at
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath" and yet
allows extensions to be added in the form of functions.
The script
takes any number of XPath pointers and tries to apply them
to each XML document given on the command
line. If no file arguments are given, the query is done
using "STDIN" as an XML
document.
When multiple
queries exist, the result of the last query is used as
context for the next query and only the result of the last
one is output. The context of the first query is always the
root of the current document.
options
-q
Be quiet. Output only errors (and no separator) on
stderr.
-s
suffix
Place "suffix" at the end of each entry.
Default is a linefeed.
-p
prefix
Place "prefix" preceding each entry.
Default is nothing.
bugs
The author of
this man page is not very fluant in english. Please, send
him (fabien[:at:]tzone[:dot:]org) any corrections concerning this
text.
See also
XML::XPath(3pm).
history
This module is
copyright 2000 Fastnet Software Ltd. This is free software,
and as such comes with NO WARRANTY . No dates
are used in this module. You may distribute this module
under the terms of either the Gnu GPL , or
under specific licencing from Fastnet Software Ltd. Special
free licencing consideration will be given to similarly free
software. Please don’t flame me for this licence
- I’ve put a lot of hours into this code, and if
someone uses my software in their product I expect them to
have the courtesy to contact me first.
Full support
for this module is available from Fastnet Software Ltd on a
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the message. There are lots of friendly people on the list,
including myself, and we’ll be glad to get you
started.
Matt Sergeant,
matt[:at:]sergeant[:dot:]org
This man page
was added as well as some serious modifications to the
script by Fabien Ninoles <fabien[:at:]debian[:dot:]org> for the
Debian Project.
see also
XML::XPath(3pm).